Thai Coffee Culture and Thai Coffee History _ what brands are there except Starbucks Thai Coffee?

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Thai people love coffee, but it is by no means the romantic complex of "life is wasted on good things" in the west. Their coffee culture is the same as our tea culture in Taiwan.

Coffee has entered human life since the 14th century. Its name comes from the loanwords of Coffee in Britain, including Chinese. Thailand is in the early 19th century or so began to formally understand coffee, Thailand although the contact is relatively late, but it is a country that loves coffee!

A brief history of Thai coffee,

The first coffee tree entered Thailand in 1824, but it was planted inside the palace. For the common people, they could not see it and still drank it. Although there were also mobile merchants who brought a small amount of coffee into the Thai market at that time, the common people did not know coffee at that time.

Later in 1904 "Robusta"(Low-latitude coffee beans) officially entered Thailand, there is a businessman (Mr. Ti-Moon) introduced coffee and planted it in Slongklar. This was also the first time Thai people met coffee. Because coffee had not been named in Thailand at that time, people also called it Coffee. However, due to the accent, it became Ka-Fare. Finally, it was simply called like this. At that time, there was a book that said,"Ka Fare --small tree seeds from abroad." Drink hot water for tea."

Since 1976, Thailand has been a coffee exporter, selling an average of 850 tons of Robusta a year on the international market.

When coffee costs rose in 1980, the Thai government did not abandon coffee as a cash crop, but continued to support farmers to develop Robusta, and Thailand continued to export more coffee.

In 1987, coffee had become a visible beverage in Thailand, but the total amount of coffee drunk by Thais was not as much as imagined. At that time, Thais drank only 500 grams of coffee per person per year on average. In 1988, Thailand had the first instant coffee produced by "Nestle" company, which completely solved two major problems in Thailand (Asia) market at that time. One was that Thais did not like to grind coffee and then brew coffee themselves. Second, coffee shops were too expensive for Thailand's blue-collar class at the time.

Then canned coffee began to appear, and it was very popular because it was cheap, easy to get and easy to drink.

● Here we introduce you to Thailand's delicious coffee besides Starbucks!

Thai coffee is usually not like Starbucks syrup, Thailand a lot of coffee is condensed milk, when it comes to condensed milk, Thai people are lovers, many desserts must be added condensed milk even coffee is, with condensed milk instead of sugar and cream, the taste becomes very rich. This is why people who have lived in Thailand for a long time will feel that Taiwanese coffee is only like water with coffee spices every time they go back to Taiwan, because we come here with heavy flavors!

● First of all, let's introduce Thailand's "mandarin duck".

"Yuanyang" is also called coffee tea in Southeast Asia, that is, coffee and tea are drunk together. After drinking it, I feel that he has a good fight with Manniu...

Speaking of which, when I went to drink these mandarin ducks, it was past 1 p.m., and as a result, I couldn't sleep that night. (I am a coffee addict who can sleep soundly even after drinking coffee at night. ）

They can drink it hot or cold.

This mandarin duck is not easy to find in Thailand, so far I have seen a traditional food market in western Thailand, but there is a 24-hour coffee shop in Bangkok called Baan Rai Coffee.

Coffee lovers coming to Thailand can go there and try it!

Coffee World uses the same syrup as Starbucks, but its coffee is stronger than Starbucks.

The price is similar to Starbucks, I prefer Coffee World.

●S&P Blue Cup also uses syrup, but in fact, S&P only started to bake snacks, and later began to cook meals and then microwave food, and then began to have its own coffee brand called Blue Cup.

S&P also has a buy-one-get-one-free promotion one day a month. Here are this year's promotions. You can pick up the good ones on the day of the above dates.

Actually, I think Black Canyon's food is better than coffee, so I'll introduce it next time.

● Next, we will introduce a few cheap coffees that are very large in the market, and they use condensed milk instead of syrup coffee.

Coffee Today started out near hypermarkets, department stores, supermarkets and even traditional markets, but now it can be seen in some places.

Amazon! My favorite! The coffee here is strong and fragrant! The point is it's inexpensive.

It used to exist in PTT gas stations but now it is also in major department stores, but the price is different in gas stations and department stores yo.

Chao Doi coffee is also brewed with condensed milk instead of syrup, and its taste is also strong.

Finally, here comes the highlight!

There's a coffee that's only available in Thailand, and it costs $50 a cup. (More than $1,000)

It's called Black Ivory Coffee.

Black Ivory Coffee is owned by a company in northern Thailand (Black Ivory Coffee Company...) The exclusive production of "premium" coffee, the production method is very special, first of all, the high-quality Arabica coffee beans fed to the elephant to eat, and then wait for the elephant to pull out the coffee beans, coffee beans from the stool to find out probably completed, the whole digestion process will take 15 to 70 hours, black ivory coffee is mainly through the elephant gastric juice to decompose the protein in the coffee beans, into semi-digested coffee beans, this way can remove bitterness and increase aroma, It is fermented with other plants in the elephant stomach to give coffee its unique flavor.

Yes,

Yes, it is,

I repeat,

Coffee beans plucked from elephant poop.

In Thailand, black ivory coffee is mainly sold to 5-star hotels and super high-end resorts. The international price of civet coffee beans is about 500 US dollars a pound, while a cup of black ivory coffee costs 50 US dollars. The main reason why it is so expensive is that 70 pounds of Arabica coffee beans can be soaked only 2 pounds after processing (feeding elephants), and the whole process depends entirely on manual work.

Someone must have asked if caffeine would harm the elephant, and the answer was no.

Because the beans used are low-caffeine Arabica beans, which contain only about 1% caffeine (twice as much as Robusta), green beans have a skin that protects the coffee oil inside the beans, and the beans need to be roasted at 200 degrees and fermented at 93 degrees.

Elephants have blood tests to confirm that coffee beans are harmless to them, and elephants themselves eat coffee beans in the wild.

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